Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system,

sexually based offenses

are considered especially heinous.

In New York City, the dedicated detectives

who investigate these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!

It's not going through, man! You need to make that call!

Malik, come on, man, that's what I'm saying!

Hey, man!

- Look at his face! - What's your problem?

You gonna pay for this?

Look, man, it's an accident!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, he's got a gun, there?

- No! - I'm calling the police!

You ain't gonna call no police, man!

Jay, Jay, come on.

Let's go, let's go, let's go, man!

- Damn! - Stop right there!

Put your hands where we can see them!

- We didn't do anything! - Shut your mouth,

and keep your hands where I can see them.

- They tried to rob me! - No, we didn't!

Shut up, shut up.

I was trying to use the bodega phone.

I was taking my cell out the pocket,

just to show him it was dead!

- You been drinking? - Sir, listen to me...

You listen to me! You keep your hands

on the hood. We need help!

His sister! She's... she's being raped!

- Raped? - I was trying to call 911.

My sister... She's 16, she...

She's in the playground around the corner, please!

We gotta go get her!

Please, we gotta go get her!

How long ago did the assault happen?

About an hour.

Guy says, he and his sister were held up at gunpoint.

They threw Tiana to the ground...

Officer said you ran.

There were six of them, sir.

Over here!

We got her!

She's right here.

Hey, Tiana?

Hey, it's okay,

we got you, baby. Okay, can you sit up?

There you go. Somebody call a bus!

Here you go. Can you tell us what happened?

Oh, thank God you're okay, T.

Look, the guys that raped you, I swear to God,

I swear to God, I'ma kill 'em, okay?

- Back up! - I swear to God!

Help me,

I was raped!

I'm sorry, Malik!

It's okay.

I'm sorry!

- Hey. - Sorry for calling you so earlier.

It's okay. The victim is 16?

- Yeah. - You call the mother?

Well, the mother is in Bedford Hills Correctional.

There's no father in the picture.

Her older brother, Malik, is her legal guardian.

Okay, and Malik is the one who reported the rape?

Yeah, so he and his friend, Jerome,

were apparently trying to call for help,

and the bodega owner thought it was a robbery.

So much for community relations.

And can Malik or his friend ID the rapist?

It was dark; They say that there were six of them,

one of them with a gun. We're canvassing now.

We're pulling security cams. Detectives?

- You're from SVU? - We are.

I just examined Tiana Williams.

- How is she? - Scrapes, bruising

on her knees, palms, genital trauma on the rape kit.

Semen in her throat and underwear.

Okay, well, let's get that to the lab,

and see if we can get lucky enough to get a DNA hit.

She was pretty out of it when we found her.

What came up on the tox screen?

Traces of heroin, and her blood alcohol

- was .19. - A 16 year-old girl,

alone in the middle of the night in that kind of shape.

You don't wanna know how many times we see that in here.

Okay, so did you call Child Services?

Tiana's been crying, asking for her brother.

I direct Child Services into this,

they're gonna bust up the only family she has.

That's your call.

Where is she?

- Right over there. - Thank you.

How's Tiana? I need to see her.

My lieutenant is with her at the hospital.

We'll know more soon. All right, that thing

at the bodega. Jerome and I,

we were just trying to find help, man.

Let's talk about what happened before that.

What were you and Tiana doing at the playground?

Well, Tiana came home.

She said she had a good grade on her biology test.

So I went to the store, bought some vodka to celebrate.

Vodka? She's 16.

Well, it's not a regular thing, you see...

Tiana's smart, and she's...

And she's our ticket out the hood, so,

I wanted to do something special for her.

So we went to the playground,

and just hung out.

Okay, what happened then?

These guys, six dudes,

they pulled up, man.

White? Black? Latino? How old?

Black, young.

I don't know, my age?

But one of them threatened me.

Threatened you how?

One of them lifted they shirt up,

showed a gun in they waistband.

Said I had to leave, and Tiana had to stay.

And you just left her there?

Well, they said they were gonna shoot me otherwise.

I had no choice. Sure, you had a choice.

You take a bullet.

You don't leave your little sister alone.

Yo, Malik came bookin' out the playground,

said Tiana was in trouble.

Wait, so you weren't at the playground?

No, no, no, I was out doing my thing,

hanging with my girl, you know?

But we got in a fight, so I went out for a walk

while things blew over.

She got a short memory.

I ran into Malik.

And then what?

I think you know and then what.

So you didn't actually see the guys

- who attacked Tiana? - No.

But Malik said they in a gang.

- Which gang? - I don't know!

But they real hard dudes.

I mean no one messes with them.

Let's get back to the six guys.

Height, weight.

Hair, tats, clothing.

It was dark.

I heard you say, at the playground,

that you would kill them.

Hell yeah.

You know them?

Nah.

You sure?

Yes.

You trying to help your little sister or not, Malik?

You didn't protect her.

This is your chance to make that right.

- This isn't Malik's fault. - What we want

to focus on right now

is catching the men who did this to you.

Can you tell us anything? How many there were?

What they looked like? Um...

Yeah, three of them, I think.

It all happened so fast, and I was out of it.

- I-I... I don't know, I don't know. - Okay.

Okay.

I need my inhaler.

Um... where... where's my bag?

We didn't find anything at the scene.

Oh, so they robbed me, too?

Hold on, listen, Tiana. Is there anything

that was in your bag that might help us identify

who took it, like a credit card?

Our food card. Our food card.

How am I gonna do the shopping for this week?

- We don't have any money! - Okay.

- What's gonna happen to us? - Tiana, we can help you

- with that, okay? - I don't want your help!

I want my bag! And I want to see Malik!

Can we... excuse me,

can we get a doctor in here please?

- She needs her inhaler. - Okay.

Just breathe.

Slowly now, okay.

10 milligrams Albuterol.

Good. Good, good, good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Malik said that there were six assailants?

Black, young, possibly gang affiliated.

Malik didn't give us much to go on.

Well, neither did Tiana.

She said that there were three of them.

She was pretty high.

What about the friend, Jerome?

He backs up Malik's story.

I've got a call into the gang unit.

If this was some type of initiation,